skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to two-space, fine, but be aware that most people believe and understand you're living in the typographic stone age alongside people who indent their paragraphs and use Whitesmiths.

Is there really any reason to disparage people who don't agree with you? Just accept it as a personal preference or something done because that's how people were taught and move on. Not everything needs to be a "but I'm right" thing.
I think they have the right idea but for the wrong reasons. Having a person whose sole job is to play devil's advocate on every idea can help minimize the risks of group think. Often truly bad ideas are not a mystery, plenty of people on the ground level of a company think they are bad ideas but also know that speaking out will hurt them politically within the company. There is nothing a company can do to prevent this feeling, it's a natural part of human behavior. Having someone who does nothing but question and criticize might give these voices a safe channel from which to express their perspective, preventing bad ideas from moving forward in good companies.
You might think that's flattering, but I don't care what those people think about me and I definitely didn't ask them for their opinion -- whether or not it's in my favor. Do women like cat-calls from neighborhood windows and construction workers? No, it's rude and it implies that I exist for their enjoyment.

At the end of the day, in an era where facial- and location-recognition software are becoming more and more the norm, I don't need threads about my "nice ass" being tied to my face and my whereabouts on an open forum where anyone with a grudge against me personally or just somebody that hates my face could go and start drama without my presence and ability to defend myself.

In nearly every single thread with a picture of someone, there is a comment or two asking "Does this person live in X?" or "Is their name Y?" A (somewhat humiliating) photo of an acquaintance was posted and made it to the front page, and it seemed like everyone knew a girl that looked like her and named names, trying to work together to solve this unwanted mystery.

In the worst scenarios, you'll get exes that go off the rails and start listing off details about them before a mod finds the post. Privacy is a right, not a privilege, and while the lines blur and it becomes more of an ethical issue between who you trust with images/information you post online, it should still be treated from the perspective that gawkers should find their kicks elsewhere.
"owned" comes from a different meaning originally (owning a machine, and then identifying the machine with its user), whereas as the "rape" etymology is direct, but then convergent evolution leads us to insults like "I owned you like Thomas Jefferson owned slaves".
"You won't find good engineers interested [in fixing vulnerabilities]. It's a waste of their talent."

If developers know that they'll have to fix their own bugs, hopefully they'll be more careful there will be fewer bugs. Also, developers fixing bugs in their own code are less likely to introduce additional bugs than people fixing bugs in code they don't know well.

Also, if these developers are really so talented, why do they write code that's full of vulnerabilities?
[HN] PG - Any chances of discussing community changes?
There's one thing that's been bugging me for a while now. Hacker News is built up of a lot of intellectuals who like to have a good debate. But then sometimes people sign up and post rude/hateful/trollish posts and like to hide behind the anonymity.

I've witnessed that on many posts, recently this one: http://laurasanders.net/a-primer-on-sexism-in-the-tech-industry-by-an-actual-girl/

Likewise, with that article there's lots of flagging. That article was at the top of HN for most of the day, and now is at the bottom. It has more comments than any other post on the front page I believe too. It's fueled debate (both good and bad) and isn't that the point of this place over somewhere like Delicious? The community aspect.

Now, I'll agree I'm biased on this post in particular, but I've seen it plenty of other articles.

I love HN. It's awesome - I lurk too much but it does a lot of greatness in my opinion. I'd like to see it bettered.

Anything else anyone else can see genuine improvements?
Firefox 17 beta prepares for a more social future
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XKCD - click and drag with clojurescript
How formation of Mars rock is similar to forgotten recipe of drunken colonials
Emoji autocomplete
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Reddzine - A new magazine-style reddit client for iPad
Yes, I'm not sure if this approach would pass the Accessibility test. (Think text-to-speech browsers, customized control setups, and so on. Some people really cannot use a mouse.)
I think it is interesting, but what really fascinates me is that I'm one of the only America women in my office and the only one who doesn't come from an Asian immigrant family. When I talk to my American female friends, most of them seem to think IT and computing in general is boring and dull. They wanted interesting careers and didn't think our sector fit the bill. The immigrant/first gen women in my office have a totally different attitude. They were encouraged by their family to pursue the career with the most stable potential, not the most interesting one.
bonus points for using Esprima to parse

Absolutely. Esprima is one of the better things to happen to the JavaScript world.

The lack of a good, fast, reusable JavaScript parser has been an annoying deficit that is finally being adequately addressed.

There's been a bunch of JS parsers over the years (many PEG-based), but my project (at least) has brought all of them to their knees. Very, very frustrating to get OOM errors trying to parse large JavaScript frameworks and perform code transformations.
Pip is by no means exclusive to libraries. See https://github.com/jkbr/httpie for an example of a CLI app that's distributed through both pip and easy_install.

This guide might be helpful for you:
http://guide.python-distribute.org/creation.html

Also, nice work. I've used localtunnel up till now. You've definitely added more features than they have, so I'll be following this closely.
Yeah, The problem is always that very few, very few indeed, medical procedure rises to the prior that parachutes have... but anti-EBM people somehow have a surprisingly long list of such procedures, a list that rather resembles the list they would've made before EBM began insisting on RCTs.
Of course.

She has had personal experience with sexism. But her argument was also that according to the original .net magazine article; every woman fears being raped all day every day. It was sensationalist.

I agree with a lot of what you have to say. She generally doesn't concern herself with posts like these but she felt the need to considering a man (I know you don't care about gender but it's important factor that a man is telling her how she feels) is saying what sexism is to EVERYONE. Name calling EVERY man on it (almost as if saying he knows better.)
Hm, but what about the effect of the bacteria consuming said drinks; surely this will change the results ?
They tend to be either too easy for AI to guess, or too hard for even a human to read.
Great. But what about Taboo's copyright? (Just wondering)
Oh, I remember

Two spaces after end of a sentence © GNU coding standards

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Comments
One of the first comments I wrote explained I am her flat mate. I am also the original poster of this article. So that in itself shows bias. I have been very vigilante to show that I am both, and that I know both authors.
I two-space because it is was ingrained in me by my elderly typing teacher in school.
Didn't work in Firefox for me, but worked in Chromium.
Many modern text editors (can) use proportional fonts. It's quite nice. You should try it out sometime.
That's great to know! Hopefully one of these projects will make it into the kernel soon, since this is obviously a very useful feature.
Same here. It's amazing what having customers vs. users can do for a business, right from the get-go.
It works here in the USA.
Looks like "ascii art" and "comic sans" are retired :(
I don't understand why people get so worked up about this. I personally one space, but I feel like the difference between the two is so minute that it shouldn't really matter...
So blacks don't get paid less, get higher interest rates, and jailed more frequently; because of slavery?

All class systems invoke a behaviors which is the complete opposite of Meritocracy; They are sensational from one viewpoint but are still prevalent in the class system. If you do not openly address those then you are in fact being passive in allowing the system to continue.

Just because you treat women with dignity, and you have friends of multiple races.. Simply means you are not bigoted. You still could be a racist, and sexist. These are some things Faruk Ateş is bringing up in his primer, but is being lost by those who in general are privileged.
Something's level of interestingness is more a decision on my part than a property of the something, I've found.
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Did I call her a girl?
And as far as she's concerned, I'm allowed to call her anything I like (within reason.)

Granted, that doesn't mean I should.
I'm not saying her opinion is more or less valid than Faruk's, but in terms of the antecdotal "arguments" of her blog her authority may be less meaningful than, say, someone who works with 99% male neckbeards hacking linux kernel for 15 years (just as his anecdotal arguments would be less valuable than hers).
You may be the kind of guy who can do that, but after a couple of those outings one of you will probably start to develop affection for the other one, and that is why I would recommend sticking to a group.
You cannot search Google for ==
You'll end up with something crazy like

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%3D%3D%3D&oq=%3D&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%2B%2B&oq=%2B%2B&gs_l=serp.3..0l4.2294.2294.4.2459.1.1.0.0.0.0.77.77.1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Yss-ppYZyE8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=d011bf3f79687ad4&bpcl=35243188&biw=1509&bih=967

Edit: You cannot Bing =
I think some of that is generational. The women I work with who are my generation (I'm in my 50s) find that offensive, whereas the ones from the generation younger don't see anything wrong with it. I think the language is changing, where the previous generation would say men and girls, and my generation would say men and women, the next generation seems to be moving toward girls and boys.
For sweetness, try rotating between non-fructuse sweeteners. like saccharin, aspartame, stevia, etc.
I also find that Coke Zero is a nice way to cut down on sugar but still keep the Coke taste, and it's a lot less acidic than Diet Coke. However I don't find vending machines stocking it as often as I'd like. That's assuming you are not buying into the aspartame myths. I've got diabetes in my family, so to me the risks of sugar far outweighs the less than slight risk of aspartame.
yes. also some platforms (mostly forums, less of blogs) allow editing of posts, so forum spammers sometimes post meaningless crap only to replace it later with spam.
I've never understood if sugar affects gum disease. Does anyone know? Does the gum disease bacteria eat sugar or directly eat your teeth and gums?

I tried looking it up once but I only found information about sugar and cavities.
Great read. Thanks. :)
Also, what about the popular Cloud9 editor and Nide? http://coreh.github.com/nide/
So I was doing an online order last night and I noticed something
When I was just about to checkout and enter in all my billing information this ( https://twitter.com/cnizzdotcom/status/256591136074919937/photo/1/large ) overlay came up asking me for a charitable contribution and it got me thinking: Why aren't more online stores doing this? Sure there could be an impact on conversion rates, but that is speculation. It seems to me that socially conscious companies should be doing more of this. Then another thing hit me, what if a web service made this sort of thing easier for all e-commerce sites to implement? This could be a very simple piece of JavaScript code that was implemented into the checkout phases. Plugins could be written for popular commercial and opensource shopping carts like Magento and Xcart. Does this sort of thing exist? If not, then why? If so, why aren't more companies doing things like this?
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From a very basic investigation by myself, I have found whiskey and water to be the alcoholic drink that's the least acidic.
There is also a blog post that describes this feature called "Shape Scripts API": http://blog.tinkercad.com/2012/10/12/tinkercad-launches-shap...
YouTube Changes Its Search Ranking Algorithm To Focus On Engagement
I cannot Google or Bing ++
WebGL, Web Audio API and Microphone Access - Audio Room
You need Chrome Canary. Go to about:flags and enable Web Audio Input. Then go to http://lab.aerotwist.com/webgl/audio-room/ for fun and particles.
Following malaria through Kenya using cell phones
Part N1. Creating, debugging and deploying extension packages for MSVS 2005-2012
I'd like to do one at some point, it's mostly HTML5 so shouldn't be a huge task.
hey pixelbeat, another one for the list - looks like "octal" returns the number of search results in octal
I love the conviction with which you say that.

So, there is no difference between compounds that we've evolved to consume over millions of years, and ones which were designed in the last 30 to be as addictive and as cheap to make as possible?

While I do not claim that there is evidence of difference (I cannot provide any), it is unfounded to claim that there is none, whether based on some (inherently) limited study of effects, or just based on lack of knowledge otherwise.

To be clear, I'm NOT talking about "Honest to god freshly squeezed tropicana juice", which is stretching the definition of what "squeezed orange juice" means (In case you are not aware - they boil it in vacuum, which gives it a much longer storage and shelf life, but kills taste and probably also any nutritional value; flavor is later added with a market-specific artificial "flavor kit" before packaging to consumers).

I'm talking about actually taking an orange, squeezing that, and drinking it. Which should be the only acceptable definition for "orange juice", I think.
I want to evaluate the service before paying anything for it.
Please pardon the imminent condescension.

Zach, this is the first of your slideshows that has left me with a lifted feeling, the feeling of reassurance that not all popular hackers are dicks, narrow-minded, or naive. Thank you!

I should probably be less judgmental, but I'm so tired of the facebook-rockstar-ninja vocabulary. Glad to see I'm not alone.
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Very, very subtle. I had to adjust the angle of the screen
New York City. Group of tourists gets off a bus in Times Square.

Activist on megaphone: Let's all work together to end homelessness!

Tourist: There are no homeless people in NYC! I don't see any!

New Yorker: Um, what? Yes there are. How would you know, you've only just been here for 5 minutes.

Tourist's Sister: New York is a MAJOR city. It's got wonderful theater, and the Yankees.

New Yorker: [at a loss for words]
My favorite is the faster regex engine:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606

The elasticsearch folks were waiting for that before exposing regexes to the world.
Powerhour drinking game - i watched a 6min ad and enjoyed it
All I can say is: when I'm editing other people's text (say, on Wikipedia), I remove their silly two space silliness. I have a Vim command wired up that runs a regex for that purpose and I run it before saving.

Extra pointless bytes are extra and pointless.

(And, yes, I realise they will exist in the previous versions. And, no, it doesn't matter. I just like imposing my will on this to make up for the fact that I am currently single and lonely. I also like consistency, and if people are going to be consistent, they may as well be consistent in a way I like.)
I don't think either article is really that great or deep, but Laura's is a lot more interesting and better written. Faruk's reads like a well-meaning bland HR presentation that everyone ignores.

I also am disturbed by how dismissive you are, but my experience in tech is that when sexism comes up, it is always the women who are the meanest. Whether it's the experienced woman who insists she has never experienced sexism and you are a silly little fool for bringing it up. Or the woman who can't tolerate anyone questioning the latest politically correct spiel of the day like Faruk's.

So she doesn't have that much experience? How about actually rebutting her arguments? Or do you just not like the idea of someone questioning these things? How about writing your own article?
Millions suffer as O2 network stumbles
We should be able to detect that by looking for large numbers of posts with small edit distances. That will contain false positives, but looking for very large numbers should mitigate that.
Personally, it was painful to read that first comment. The attitude that the issue is somehow minor because one hasn't dealt with it in "x amount of years" in the industry is completely moot. These scenarios depend so much on many different factors and tossing it out the window so willingly paints a very broad stroke of ignorance and privilege.
I do like his slide decks as they are better than 99% of the ones that I see, but what it really points out (to me) is how little time everyone else puts into how their decks look. In my experience it isn't particularly hard or time consuming to put together a deck that looks like this. You just have to do it.
Google accused of spying on Gmail users
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This is common. Otherwise you get a mess of copyrighted code, and making it effectively impossible to determine who owns the copyright to what. Good luck if you ever want to change the license or give one person a special license.

You can use Project Harmony (http://harmonyagreements.org/) to generate one of these agreements for your own project. It's targeted at FOSS, and the licenses themselves are under CC-AT-3.0.
Bacteria consume sugar, which produces acid as a waste-product, which erodes enamel. Gum disease is primarily an inflammatory response to the presence of external irritants like dental plaque (which contains bacteria as well).
These nagging bugs pay back dividends in the long term if you are on the right side of them though, which was my point. Let's say that I get a 6% raise every year because I ask for it (either directly, or through promotion), while people who don't get a 4% raise. If someone starts out making $80k a year, after 10 years, the person not asking is making $118k per year, while the person asking for it is making $143k/year. Over the 10 years, that means that the first person makes about $1.078 million, while the second makes $1.198 million - a difference of $120k before taxes. After 5 more years of this, that difference turns into over $300k.
Study: 90% of iPhone 5 buyers have “no problem at all” with new maps app
I think Github has nailed it in terms of culture. I've been trying to get my company to adopt the Github ways for a while and I can't wait to share this latest gem with everyone.

I do have some questions though. What is Github's structure like? Is it completely flat? Are there project managers? How do you 'manage' remote workers? I feel like there has to be a little structure to the chaos, or at least some techniques and tools that make things work smoothly, especially with a company that's growing so fast.
Those are two good suggestions, definitely will get to work changing that. Thanks for the help, appreciate it!
Clang Rocks
Discovering Clang internal design to develop tools based on it.
Save yourself and mute the video.
You're going to love Windows 8.
Why does that matter? You have an extremely aggressive and dismissive viewpoint when it comes to those who disagree with you.

I'm sorry that you feel HN readers are upvoting the wrong things but maybe (just maybe) it's not so bad. The article you are defending used rape 10 times to make an argument about sexism. I think even Rudy Giuliani would think that excessive.
Ron Paul seems to try to fill the role often.
Try seeing if any of these make it better - http://coderwall.com/p/z7egjg?i=1&p=1&q=author%3Aman...
From my experience running popular open source applications seems to pretty much guarantee spam.

For example, We built a website with a forum some years back and used phpBB. Within days massive amounts of explicit porn had been posted all over it and we had a client threatening to sue.

We tried everything we could to get rid of it, stopping images/hyperlinks from being posted, adding captchas , anti-spam plugins and doing stuff like adding sneaky hidden form fields.

At one point we even deleted the signup form and required administrators to create accounts by hand on request for users, yet the bots still somehow managed to create their own accounts on the forum.

None of it worked for over a month at a time.

In the end I just built a super simple php forum by hand in a few hours with very rudimentary anti-spam since it was a small forum and we weren't using many phpBB features anyway.

Took over a year for the bots to come back and at that point switching the HTML around and changing the form field names seems to have kept them away thus far.
Lucene + Solr is also a NoSQL database. Not the best choice for every circumstance but then again, nothing really is.
Except that he does. He only argues that two spaces doesn't look ugly in monospaced fonts but should be changed to smaller spacing when presenting variable fonts. No further explanation should be required as to why he doesn't go out of his way to break that.
It's thinking like this that's making progress difficult.

"Gay marriage? After having it drummed into my head for the better part of ten years that it's a bad thing, I'm never going to change for anyone."
Well, being married is a potential obstacle, anyway. Not a perfect guarantee that a platonic workplace relationship won't be misinterpreted.
That's a function of mobile and broadband, not facebook et al (arguably)
I would add that it is pretty easy to get started with on Rails as well. Using the Sunspot library for Solr is super easy to use and has been really flexible for our use cases. It is a solid piece of software.
there are plenty of upsides to drawing UIs in code. You get resizable controls, controls you can change the color on, controls that can be added easier programatically, and smaller app bundles.
Philip Zimmermann: Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
The girl who stood up to the Taliban
working in FF for me:)
its the job of the founders and management
Xylitol's major positive effects on teeth health come from a different path: The bacteria responsible for cavities will try to eat it (cause it's close enough to sugar) but fail to digest it (cause it isn't), which will interfere with their ability to prosper and even kill them.

(Unfortunately, that's also true for dogs: DO NOT feed your dog xylitol. It is toxic for them: two xylitol-swettened gums are potentially enough to kill a small dog, and cause irreversible damage to larger dogs!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol is a treasure trove
Why OpenStreetMap will beat Google and Apple
There's a bunch more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google%27s_hoaxes_and_e...

Like "zerg rush", "kerning" and "keming", searching for bacon numbers, etc...
Good job. I like the UI.
Cool! A glider crawled all the way across my browser.
The Cost of a Famous Logo? From 0 to $211 Million
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Narcissism of small differences, anyone?